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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 40, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

May 5, 1995Upton County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 5, 1995, 8:28 PM CDT for Upton County, Texas. It was in force for 47 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 5, 1995, 8:28 PM CDT (01:28 UTC)
Expired
May 5, 1995, 9:15 PM CDT
In force
47 min
Issued by
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Upton County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 66 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Midland Regional, TX at 00:00Z on 1995-05-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 565 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Midland Regional, TX at 00:00Z on 1995-05-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 207 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
565 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-260 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1149 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
77 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
207 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
102 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.2

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KMAF 060128
SVRMAF
TXC461-060215-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
828 PM CDT FRI MAY 5 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  915 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN WEST TEXAS
 
   ...UPTON COUNTY
 
AT 825 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM ABOUT 10 MILES NORTH OF MCCAMEY. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT
25 MILES AN HOUR. AT 816 PM THE SHERIFF/S OFFICE REPORTED MARBLE SIZE
HAIL 4 MILES NORTH OF MCCAMEY.
 
WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A
STRONG BUILDING.  DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS.  DON'T USE TELEPHONES
OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM
HAS PASSED.  MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.
 
 
 
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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 5, 2:33 PM CDT, 5 hours 55 minutes before
TXZ045>047-050>052-058>063-067>069-075-082-NMZ027>029-052045-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
233 PM CDT (133 PM MDT) FRI MAY 5 1995

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR MOST OF THE PERMIAN
   BASIN UNTIL 800 PM CDT...

AT 225 PM CDT (125 PM MDT)...AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH
VERY HEAVY RAIN...WAS LOCATED FROM SOUTHEAST OF FORT DAVIS TO
NORTHWEST OF ABILENE. THE HEAVIEST STORM WAS WEST OF ODESSA.
MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR.

PERSONS IN THE PERMIAN BASIN SHOULD WATCH FOR THREATENING WEATHER
AND LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...LOCAL RADIO OR TV FOR LATER
STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 5, 7:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFPecos39 min
May 6, 12:59 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFGaines61 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 1995Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1995

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.